
Ah yes, not only can folks not read cursive any more, but it appears that anything other than Comic Sans is illegibleā¦
aside:
Iāve been playing with the AI handwriting recognition on the Boox tablet, and while itās pretty incredible I cannot get it to understand the word ābrownā in cursive, at least when using my low-quality rendition of DāNealian (which I actually learned in grade school!). It just thinks itās a drawing and doesnāt try to interpret it.
I learned this of course while experimenting with āThe quick brown foxā¦ā. Iām not sure what the problem is; I think itās the b-r ligature. Iāve tried a number of variations and theyāve got to be really out there to get understood. Itās surprising since the handwriting recognition is otherwise so solid, whether block print, cursive, or scrawl.
I think the AI program youāre working with is still smarter than Linda McMahon, US Secretary of Education.
Sheās calling it āA Oneā, but who knows? She seems to think that the initials for artificilal intelligence are upper-case A and the numeral 1.
I think Robocop didnāt go far enough.
Next time you see one of those articles saying that ChatGPT can do as well as a human when taking the Bar exam, keep in mind that maybe thatās because ChatGPT wrote the damn test:
Literally the only conversation Iāve had with the new WhatsApp AI was asking how to turn it off. It gave me directions to a non-existing settings page
As far as I can tell they havenāt rolled it out around here yet.
Thatās the opposite of what I want from a car.